[CPEO-BIF] "City may cough up cash to clean up"

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City may cough up cash to clean up

Considers paying state worker to speed reuse of tainted sites 

By BRUCE HENDERSON 
The Charlotte Observer
1/27/01

Charlotte officials say they've found a way to speed up redevelopment of
contaminated industrial sites: hire more state staff with local money. 

A single employee staffs the state's brownfields program, which spells out the
extent of cleanup needed before the sites can be reused. 

Only six agreements, four of them in Charlotte, have been reached since
legislators launched the program in 1997. Each agreement takes four to six
months to complete. 

"Something is wrong somewhere. I don't think it was the intent of the
legislators to have no greater impact than that in four years," said Tony
Pressley of MECA Properties, which signed the state's first brownfields
agreement in 1997. "Sometimes you do what you have to do, and I think this is
one of those times."

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http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/brownfield0127.htm

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